1. Kingdom Fungi Cell type: Eukaryotic Cellular organization:
All multicellular except for unicellular yeast
Heterotrophic- Unlike animals, they don’t ingest their food! Fungi digest food outside of their bodies and then absorb the nutrients.
Cell walls of chitin
Hyphae are tiny threadlike filaments that make up the body of the fungus- or the mycelium.
Sexually (+ and -) & Asexually by making spores
Cell type:
Cellular organization:
Mode of nutrition:
Special structures:
Cellular/Tissue/Organs:
Reproduction:

2. Major Types of Fungi: Zygomycota: Common Molds Ascomycota: Sac fungi
Grow on meat, cheese, bread, etc.
Example: Black bread mold
Ascomycota: Sac fungi
Largest phylum in this kingdom
Example: Yeast (Common Morel & Truffles below)
Basidiomycota: Club fungi
Wide diversity with examples such as mushrooms, shelf fungi, and puffballs. Page 535
Deuteromycota: Imperfect fungi
“Imperfect” because our scientific understanding is imperfect. Scientists are unable to accurately place these in any category- because aren’t able to observe sexual cycle.
Example: Penicillium notatum

3. Additional information on Fungi:
Major ecological role: Decomposers!
Some parasitic
Fungi & Symbiosis:
Lichen: They aren’t a single organism. It is a fungus and a photosynthetic organism like a protist such as algae.
Mycorrhizae: Systems underground of interwoven plant roots and fungal mycelia.
Economic use: Mushrooms alone make millions of dollars each year, but yeast makes possible bread and booze.
Medical use: Penicillin

4. Kingdom Protista Cell type: Eukaryotic Cellular organization:
Mode of nutrition:
How to Classify:
Eukaryotic
Unicellular & multicellular
Autotrophic & Heterotrophic
Any eukaryotic organism that doesn’t fit in the plant, animal, or fungus kingdom.

5. Major Types of Protists:
Animal-like Protists – Protozoa (4):
Heterotrophs
Categorized by means of locomotion
Zooflagellates- Flagella
Sarcodines- Pseudopods
Example: Amoeba
Ciliates- Cilia
Sporozoans- Do not move & are parasitic
Example: Plasmodium, causes Malaria –carried by the Anopheles mosquito

6. Major Types of Protists:
Plant-like Protists – Algae (7):
Autotrophs
Unicellular Algae:
Euglenophytes: 2 flagella, no cell wall
Chrysophytes: Gold-colored chloroplast
Diatoms: Cell walls with silicon
Dinoflagellates: Example- Phytoplankton, half of the photosynthesis that occurs on Earth (right)
Multicellular Algae:
Red Algae
Brown Algae
Green Algae ->

7. Major Types of Protists:
Fungus-like Protists (3):
Heterotrophs that absorb nutrients from dead/decaying organic matter
Have centrioles
No cell wall made of chitin
Slime Molds (Cellular)
Slime Molds (Acellular)
Water Molds (Below)

8. The wonder of Algae: Economic use: Medical use:
Ice cream, salad dressing, pudding, candy bars, plastics, deodorants, paints, etc.
Medical use:
Agar- used to make the nutrient solutions that scientist use to grow bacteria in Petri dishes